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Jan-4-2005 18:37

See if there is interest for this.

1. Each day I will post 10 questions, at random times of the day.
2. Each Quiz runs exactly 24 hours.
3. The first person that has all 10 questions right, wins. Or if no one has all questions right, the best one wins.
4. You can only post answers ONCE for the same quiz.
5. No cash involved. Just glory. :)

Sep-17-2006 11:33

10. To Catch A Thief - *lol* - only one, but one of my all time favourites :)

Sep-17-2006 21:13

nice quiz, Cynderbear!

unfortunately i don't know the answer to any :(

Sep-18-2006 02:04

Okay--here are the answers:

1. The Bicycle Thief
2. The Thief Lord
3. Thief
4. The Thief
5. The Thief of Baghdad
6. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
7. The Good Thief
8. My Dog, the Thief
9. Once a Thief
10. To Catch a Thief

And the thief-catcher who wins the posting of the next quiz is *fanfare*

ROSAMUND CLIFFORD!

My thanks to those who played and enjoyed, or read and enjoyed, or just lurked....

Sep-18-2006 02:57

Thanks for the quiz Cynderbear! I was forced to lurk. Much too challenging for me! :0) Good job!

Sep-18-2006 05:13

Thanks, Cynderbear, it was a nice quiz.

Name the opera and the composer:

1. An Egyptian warrior is in love with an Ethiopian slave.
2. A former barber tries to marry the countess's maid.
3. A soldier falls in love with a beautiful gypsy, but she leaves him for a toreador.
4. An American Navy officer marries a geisha.
5. An officer tries to learn the secret of the three cards from an old countess.
6. An elderly doctor forfeits his soul to the devil in exchange for youth.
7. A faithful wife disguises in male clothes to save her imprisoned husband.
8. A count uses the services of a barber to win the hand of his beloved.
9. A Druid priestess has two children by a Roman proconsul, but he loves another woman.
10. A young knight is in quest for the Holy Grail.

Sep-18-2006 05:51

1. Aida - Verdi
2. Marriage of Figaro - Mozart? (I'm gonna get 8 & 2 mixed up)
3. Carmen - Bizet
4. Madamae Butterfly - Puccini?
5. I don't know many Operas about cards, Queen of Spades by Tchaichovsky
6. Faust - and I have no idea :s
7. This is the one by Beethoven and it's his only opera... minds gone blank for the name?
8. Barber of Seville? - Rossini?
9. absolutely no idea?
10. Parsifal - Wagner

Sep-18-2006 17:12

There's not much to add to Squirrel's answers, so I'll just fill in the blanks.

6. Faust - Charles Gounod
7. Fidelio
9. Norma - Vincenzo Bellini

Squirrel, it's your turn!

Sep-18-2006 18:14

Okie Kokies, just a General Quiz based on Sleuthy ‘stuff’ from the Boards. Nothing taxing :)

1. Knight Rider: Name the evil car which was the nemesis of KITT & Michael.
2. Egypt: In the Amelia Peabody Series by Elizabeth Peters (set mainly in late 1800/early 1900 Egypt) what is the name of crime solving / archaeologists Emersons’ son.
3. Brave Sir Robin: In Monty Python and the The Holy Grail what fate befalls Brave Sir Robin’s minstrels?
4. 80’s Boy bands: Which boy band was actor Donnie Wahlberg a member of (and he’s still living it down!)
5. Name any detective that both solved and failed an Arch Villain Hunt.
6. What’s the current Url address for Sleuthchat?
7. What is the word for “detective” in Hebrew.
8. Why do you love Sleuth? (and then when you’ve finished here, go paste your answer in the ‘Why do you love Sleuth’ Thread in Gumshoe...)
9. Transformers: Who was the leader of the Autobots?
10. Name any three agents from Bookends Agency…

Sep-18-2006 18:19

1. ?
2. ?
3. The Knights were forced to eat them in the frozen land of Nador... and there was much rejoicing.
4. New Kids On The Block
5. Me :)
6. www.nikkie.org/sleuthchat.html?
7. ?
8. It keeps me sane when I'm up with my newborn son at 3 AM
9. Optimus Prime!
10. ?

Sep-18-2006 18:29

1. Al Z? (dont know, really)
2. ?
3. beheading?
4. 80’s Boy bands: NEW KIDS! (ya baby I know one!)
5. lol myself
6. www.nikkie.org/sleuthchat/chat
7. ?
8. I said cuz it was text based and hard enough to be challenging, yet easy enough to not be too frustrating (most of the time)
9. LOL I cant remember
10. umm thats the new one right? I cant remember that either lol and im so not gonna cheat :)